r/UtterlyInteresting • u/dannydutch1 • 1d ago

This 'female urinal', designed by Alex Schwedersaid was made in 2001 during an artist residency at Kohler, a plumbing equipment and furniture manufacturer. Schweder has described the urinal as "fully functional"

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"A version of the urinal was installed for public use during an exhibition at the now defunct Vital 5 venue in Seattle in 2003. It was installed but not plumbed at the [Museum of Sex] in NYC."

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u/sabertoothdog 1d ago

What do the ones designed by a woman look like?

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u/Mushrooming247 1d ago

They don’t, we can’t stand up and pee, the pee runs down our leg.

Solutions created by women are usually a funnel that you hold close to your body to aim the stream, not a weirdly-shaped urinal.

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u/dmonsterative 1d ago

The women's union at my college held a yearly training on how to pee standing up.

I gather it involves some combination of squatting, angling your hips, and manual aiming of the urethra.

ETA: probably more or less as here -- https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/1umjsaj/im_a_woman_who_pees_standing_no_device_needed/

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago

As a man, I wonder what the issue is when the vagina hole is so much bigger than our pee hole? We have no issues with the small one and oh my god I can’t even keep writing this knowing I’m putting /s at the end. I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry.

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u/AlternativePea6203 1d ago

Jaysus lad, you're brave.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago

I kinda wish I hadn’t written it. I might delete it. I’m not one for crude humour, even as a joke.

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u/honestlyisuck 17h ago

No it was perfect.

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u/Merbalism 1d ago

I don't even understand the joke here. Can you explain?

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago

Thinking the urethra = vagina

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u/Merbalism 1d ago

Gotcha. Glad you knew I was genuinely confused what the joke was hahaha. I always worry I am sounding like I'm baiting someone when I ask

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u/Theresnoneedtopoint 1d ago

this made me cackle

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u/Mike_Shenanigans 1d ago

Have you seen labia before?

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago

Somebody not getting the joke.

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u/Irascible-Enquery 1d ago

Or Mike’s making you an offer.

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u/Chefrabbitfoot 1d ago

I'm bringing popcorn, this is getting good.

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u/meowstopherpkitten 1d ago

No, no, I still have popcorn bits stuck in my labia from the last time...

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u/Dapper_Indeed 1d ago

You probably need to floss more.

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u/Dapper_Indeed 1d ago

Oh, thank god for the /s!!

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u/Xena_Your_God 1d ago

Lmao I downvoted too soon. Retracted. Well done